Microsoft researcher joins battle against HIV
C|Net | at | by Mike
For David Heckerman, a funny thing happened on the way toward embarking on a biomedical research career: he went to work at Microsoft.
Armed with medical and doctorate degrees from Stanford University, Heckerman has virtually come full circle in the last 15 years. As lead researcher of Microsoft's Machine Learning and Applied Statistics Group, Heckerman has seen technology he helped develop serve as analytical tools in HIV research.
And earlier this month, Microsoft made the technology available to the research community, as open-source code for four analytical software tools to develop a vaccine for the disease.